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2. Faith applies it self to his free Grace, in sense of our own unworthiness. It teacheth us to come humbly, and to acknowledge that we deserve no help, but the contrary, and accordingly to hope in his mercy, thus Jacob. Gen. 32 10. And the Prophet, Dan. 9. 8, 9. And as this helps against despondencies from sense of our own unworthiness, so it disposeth us to celebrate the riches of mercy, appearing in these salvations, and to study how to render according thereto, Psal. 116. 12.

3. Hence faith concludes that if God will deliver us, we shall be laid under strong obligations to him by it. Certainly kindness done for us will bring us under bonds of gratitude, and so the more that is resented, the stronger hold it will have of us. This ⟨p. 408⟩sense therefore will dispose us to pay our Testimonies of gratitude to our benefactor: and all ingratitude proceeds either from insensibleness or forgetfulness of this.

7. This makes him to bring himself under obligations. A Child of God never puts up a petition to him, but either expresseth or supposeth a promise made to him, in case he answers him: for all transactions between God and his people, are in a Covenant way. Sometimes they bind themselves by a vow, as Jacob, Gen. 28. 20. or explicit promise, as